Absolute War Soviet Russia in the Second World War

Name: Absolute War Soviet Russia in the Second World War
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ISBN: 9780375724718

ISBN-10: 0375724710

ISBN-13: 9780375724718

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Authors: Chris Bellamy

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InAbsolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history. The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war, and shaped the postwar world as we know it. In this magisterial work, Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the two dictators was unceremoniously broken, and examines its far-reaching…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 880
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.82" long x 1.54" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



List of illustrations, figures and tables


Key to map symbols and abbreviations


Preface and acknowledgements



Flight of the rabid wolf: the long-term impact of the war in the East



Absolute and total war



'A cruel romance': the Nazi-Soviet alliance and Soviet expansion, August to November 1939



Further Soviet expansion and cooperation with Germany, November 1939 to June 1941



Who planned to attack whom, and how?



The war's worst-kept secret



Iron road east: the country, the forces



Barbarossa unleashed, and the battles of the frontiers...



Kremlin at war



Winning oneself to death



Midnight in Moscow



Black snow



White night: Leningrad, September 1941 to February 1944



The 'Grand Alliance'



To the edge of the abyss: the worst year - 1942



From defence to attack: the Caucasus, Stalingrad and Mars



Kursk, and a new professionalism



Destroying the Wehrmacht. Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic: reasserting Soviet control



Victory



New world order


Select bibliography


Notes and references


Index